As much as I'm looking forward to GTA5, I'm purposely ignoring as much media as I can for it. I've not watched any of the trailers after the original announcement trailer, and generally just skim over any articles that pop up on the news feed here. I want to go into it as fresh as possible.

It's such a real shame 3 out of my 4 friends who I played GTA IV with don't even game anymore It's just gonna be a duo of my friend and I fucking around in V.

Hey, I'll be turning your duo into a team of 3 if you don't mind! Most of the people that I used to play IV with were consequently all from Australia and now NONE of them game anymore. Depressing..

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As much as I'm looking forward to GTA5, I'm purposely ignoring as much media as I can for it. I've not watched any of the trailers after the original announcement trailer, and generally just skim over any articles that pop up on the news feed here. I want to go into it as fresh as possible.

I can understand that, but when you first play the game after only reading details, you're gonna have the biggest pleasant surprise of your life!

Maybe he went PC gaming? Anyway I've been think, Free Roam in GTA4 was a good idea, BUT,

1: There was not enough to do considering the map size, so I think there should be activities or missions or even better create your own crew, where you have to do heist, etc to gain fame and money. Maybe even make so you have territories like the real mob and you can fight over them by robbing banks in that area or other activities in that area to gain money/fame to be able to challenge for it.

2: GTA4's map wasnt small and this is going to be even larger(I think it's about 3.5x the size of GTA4) but in freeroam there was not enough people on the map and what people there was all hung around one area(most common for me I find them all at the airport), so with the new map being so much bigger I think the lobbies need to be alot bigger and for the game not to spawn you all in one place.

One was always a hybrid gamer (PC/Xbox) but for the past 3 years, he's ditched console gaming completely to play shitty MMO's and other PC games. The other two just legit randomly stopped gaming. Don't know how someone can decide to just give up gaming but whatevs

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Anyway I've been think, Free Roam in GTA4 was a good idea, BUT,

1: There was not enough to do considering the map size, so I think there should be activities or missions or even better create your own crew, where you have to do heist, etc to gain fame and money.

2: GTA4's map wasnt small and this is going to be even larger...

Actual side activities with friends in free roam would spice it up a lot. And I think they said 3.5x the size of Red Dead actually. Either way, considering how big the map is now, I'm not sure if it'll be good or bad. It may be too overwhelming, but at the same time, it gives you countless areas to chill each time you choose to free roam with people.

Actual side activities with friends in free roam would spice it up a lot. And I think they said 3.5x the size of Red Dead actually. Either way, considering how big the map is now, I'm not sure if it'll be good or bad. It may be too overwhelming, but at the same time, it gives you countless areas to chill each time you choose to free roam with people.

Actually your right, I think they said it is 5x the size of RDR so I think that equates to being about 7x the size of GTA4(I'm not a huge RDR fan, not completed it yet,lol, just can't get into, so I'm not quite sure how much larger it is than GTA4's map), so yeah we really need more people per lobby/match.

Edit: "So, just how big is that map? Well, according to Rockstar, including the underwater areas, it’s five times the size of Red Dead Redemption’s world and it’s all accessible from the outset. There’s none of that gating business employed by Grand Theft Auto IV."

Nah fair enough, I just hope you give one of the classic GTA games a chance again!

Well I tried GTA IV. I have 5/1500 GS in the game lol. One day maybe I'll give it another go. There have been loads of games I didn't like at first and then went back to play them and ended up liking them. This may happen for GTA...who knows?

Well I tried GTA IV. I have 5/1500 GS in the game lol. One day maybe I'll give it another go. There have been loads of games I didn't like at first and then went back to play them and ended up liking them. This may happen for GTA...who knows?

You should definitely give IV more time. Anyway to be fair V looks a lot different in terms of settings, characters, story. Everythings seems a lot more exciting this time.